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Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 14, 1974
Place of Birth
Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK
Maxine Peake
0.7 Popularity
Biography
Maxine Peake (born 14 July 1974) is an English stage, radio, film and television actress, playwright, producer, director and political activist, who made her name as Twinkle in Victoria Wood's sitcom Dinnerladies. She has since played Veronica in Channel 4's Manchester-based drama series Shameless, barrister Martha Costello in the BBC legal drama Silk and Grace Middleton in The Village. She is also an accomplished stage actress, having played the title role in Hamlet, and had a role in the 2014 film The Theory of Everything. In 2018 she played the lead in the film Funny Cow and had a starring role in Mike Leigh's epic Peterloo, a film very close to her heart.
Known For
7.0
Anna Politkovskaya
Words of War
2025
7.4
Older Dolours Price
Say Nothing
2024
10.0
Self
Art Matters
2024
5.5
Helen
Woken
2024
0.0
Narrator
Secret Life of the Safari Park
2024
9.0
Tish Murtha (voice)
Tish
2023
7.0
Barbara
Dance First
2023
7.0
Fiona Lacey
Choked Up
2023
6.7
Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
Wendell & Wild
2022
🎬
0.0
Narrator (voice)
Inner Polar Bear
2022
Credits
Words of War
as Anna Politkovskaya
2025
7.0
Say Nothing
as Older Dolours Price
2024
7.4
Art Matters
as Self
2024
10.0
Woken
as Helen
2024
5.5
Secret Life of the Safari Park
as Narrator
2024
0.0
Tish
as Tish Murtha (voice)
2023
9.0
Dance First
as Barbara
2023
7.0
Choked Up
as Fiona Lacey
2023
7.0
Wendell & Wild
as Irmgard Klaxon (voice)
2022
6.7
🎬
Inner Polar Bear
as Narrator (voice)
2022
0.0
Lapushka!
as Scoot Piccolo
2022
0.0
Something Out of Nothing
2022
0.0
Art That Made Us
as Self - Actrice (Rules of the Game, Anne)
2022
5.5
Rules of the Game
as Sam Thompson
2022
6.1
The Real Anne: Unfinished Business
as Self- Presenter
2022
0.0
Anne
as Anne Williams
2022
6.8
Where We Used to Meet
2021
0.0
Star Wars: Visions
as Kalina Kalfus (voice)
2021
7.2
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
as Miss Fozzard
2020
8.1
Surfaces
as Alix
2020
0.0
The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
as Self - Narrator
2020
0.0
It's Me
as Miriam
2020
0.0
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
as Fanny Lye
2019
6.5
🎬
Be Still My Beating Heart
2019
1.0
Judy
as Judy
2019
0.0
Peterloo
as Nellie
2018
6.8
The Bisexual
as Sadie
2018
7.0
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca
as Herself
2018
0.0
Gwen
as Elen
2018
5.4
Ceremony: The Return of Friedrich Engels
as Friedrich Engels (voice)
2018
0.5
Funny Cow
as Funny Cow
2018
6.3
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
as Self - Guest
2018
7.5
Wonders of the Moon
as Narrator (voice)
2018
6.6
The Priest
2017
0.0
Men Who Sleep in Cars
as Sarah
2017
0.0
Cake
2017
5.3
Unseen
as Emma
2017
0.0
Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
as Narrator
2017
4.0
Three Girls
as Sara Rowbotham
2017
7.2
Bunch of Kunst - A Film About Sleaford Mods
as Self (archive footage)
2017
7.4
🎬
We Have Been Watching
as Self
2017
0.0
Generation '66
as Narrator
2016
7.0
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Titania
2016
5.2
Red Top
as Rebekah Brooks
2016
5.3
I Wish For You
as Grown Up Mia
2016
0.0
The Falling
as Eileen Lamont
2015
5.2
Hamlet
as Hamlet
2015
8.2
🎬
Artsnight
as Self - Presenter
2015
0.0
Strange Weather
as Jane
2015
0.0
The Shuttleworths
as Helen Bach
2015
0.0
The Theory of Everything
as Elaine Mason
2014
7.8
Keeping Rosy
as Charlotte
2014
5.6
Inside No. 9
as Nadia
2014
8.0
Run & Jump
as Vanetia
2014
6.0
Keeping Up with the Joneses
as Celia
2013
5.9
Svengali
as Angie
2013
5.3
The Village
as Grace Middleton
2013
7.5
🎬
The Heart Fails Without Warning
as Mother
2013
0.0
Private Peaceful
as Hazel Peaceful
2012
6.6
Room at the Top
as Alice Aisgill
2012
6.9
The Hollow Crown
as Doll Tearsheet
2012
7.3
Best Laid Plans
as Isabel
2012
5.6
DeafBlind
as Maggie
2011
0.0
Black Mirror
as Bella
2011
8.3
Silk
as Martha Costello
2011
7.6
Edge
as Elly
2010
6.0
🎬
Imaginary Friend
as Pauline
2010
8.0
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
as Anne Lister
2010
6.6
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
as Helen Marshall
2009
6.9
Red Riding
2009
6.5
The Devil's Whore
as Elizabeth Lilburne
2008
6.9
Little Dorrit
as Miss Wade
2008
7.8
Clubbed
as Angela
2008
6.7
Criminal Justice
as Juliet Miller
2008
7.6
Hancock & Joan
as Joan Le Mesurier
2008
4.9
Fairy Tales
2008
0.0
Bike Squad
as WPC Kate McFay
2008
0.0
🎬
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
as Self
2007
3.7
🎬
Would Like To Meet
as George's Mum
2007
10.0
🎬
I Am Bob
as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike/Compere's Assistant
2007
7.5
🎬
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
as Tracey Temple
2007
0.0
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self
2007
0.0
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
as Myra Hindley
2006
6.3
The Street
2006
7.7
🎬
The Madness of the Dance
2006
6.5
The Fear of Trilogy
2006
0.0
Frozen
as Ticket Attendant
2005
5.7
Faith
as Linda
2005
0.0
Christmas Lights
as Pauline
2004
5.1
Shameless
2004
7.5
Shameless
as Veronica Fisher
2004
7.5
Comedy Connections
2003
2.0
Early Doors
as Janice
2003
7.7
All or Nothing
as Party girl
2002
7.1
Timeshift
as Self - Narrator
2002
7.0
Hamilton Mattress
as Lulu (voice)
2002
6.3
Linda Green
as Receptionist
2001
7.0
Messiah
as DS Vickie Clarke
2001
7.2
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Self
2000
6.5
Clocking Off
as Marie Leach
2000
7.4
Sunburn
as Sue
1999
4.0
dinnerladies
as Twinkle
1998
7.4
🎬
Girls' Night
as Sharon
1998
6.8
Jonathan Creek
as Marion Cretiss
1997
7.5
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996
6.4
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
as Photocopy Assistant
1996
7.2
ChuckleVision
1987
6.2
🎬
I Swear
N/A
0.0
🎬
Twisting My Melon
as Linda Ryder
N/A
0.0
🎬
The Dispatcher
N/A
0.0